It was at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1994 that Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke played as a trio for the first time. Clarke and Di Meola had been part of Return to Forever and while ...

French violinist and composer Jean-Luc Ponty has collaborated with a number of virtuosic and complex American music makers. He’s played with Frank Zappa, Al Di Meola, Stanley Clarke and Chick Corea.

Jean-Luc Ponty. The name might not ring a bell, but he's one of the 20th century's most innovative violinists and the inspiration behind the Cedar Rapids band Mirage. Natalie Brown, a Cedar ...

Here are Walter Tunis' picks for 10 albums spanning 40 years that detail the emotive depth, stylistic invention and sheer fun that make up the music of Jean-Luc Ponty. Sunday Walk (1967): Although not ...

Jean-Luc Ponty is far from a traditional violinist. He grew up performing classical music and jazz, then went on to pioneer jazz-rock fusion during stints with Frank Zappa and the Mahavishnu Orchestra ...

The brilliant French fiddler Jean-Luc Ponty was leading a double musical life in Paris in the early 1960s, performing with the symphonic orchestra Concerts Lamoureux before dashing over to the Blue ...

It would seem almost demeaning to refer to the career of perhaps the most influential jazz violinist of his generation as accidental. But the word that landmark French instrumentalist Jean-Luc Ponty ...

The Danish-born violinist Mads Tolling is a peripatetic creative presence on the Bay Area music scene, turning up one night as a member of the Turtle Island Quartet, and showing up later with his own ...

Some collaborations are inevitable; Ella and Louie, Tedeschi and Trucks, peanut butter and chocolate. Others are not so obvious; Plant and Krause, Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson, pineapple and ...

AndersonPonty Band is the musical partnership of two giants of progressive rock: Jon Anderson the former singer for Yes and Jean-Luc Ponty, the legendary violinist who played with Mahavishnu Orchestra ...

French fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is to have his 2001 album Life Enigma released on vinyl for the very first time. The new vinyl edition will be reissued on the MPS/Edel label on May 17, along ...